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Condonlences
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Dr. Christopher C.
To the families of the fallen and wounded at Ft. Hood, I send you condolences and and good wishes from me and my family. This is not fair. You deserved better. You willingly chose to serve our country and protect all of us. You brave heroes didn't deserve a traitor's bullet. As a doctor and a veteran I am outraged and disgusted at the murderous a ...
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Fight Back Friday November 6th
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Food Renegade
Welcome to yet another Fight Back Friday! Today we’re bringing together a collection of recipes, tips, anecdotes, and testimonies from members of the Real Food Revolution.Who are they? Why, they’re the Food Renegades. You know who you are — lovers of SOLE (Sustainable, Organic, Local, and Ethical) food, traditional food, primal fo ...
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Avian Kites
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Robert Folzenlogen
All across the Great Plains, hawks, gulls and vultures dipped and soared in the deep blue sky on this sunny, November day. Strong south winds, building ahead of the next cold front, triggered the aerial display and pushed summer-like weather into the region. As expected, red-tails dominated the show but a few rough-legged hawks were encountered on ...
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Teach Your Teachers Well: New Hot Topic -Teacher Education
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Jim Gerl
I know that a number of the readers of this blog are professors who teach future teachers. I know a bunch of them, and they are really good at what they do. They are enthusiastic and dedicated to their students and those children whom their students will be teaching. But the way we train teachers is suddenly in the news- big time. I suspect tha ...
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Stand Up!
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Jennifer Jaff
The House is just days away from voting on comprehensive health reform. With special interests stopping at nothing to block reform, your personal stories send a powerful message to Congress.Watch the video we put together with your voices and photographs – and then tell your Representative to support the Affordable Health Care for America Act ...
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Milk?
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Valerie Lo
Last night as I waited in line at Pluto's to pay for my vegan dinner (grilled veggie sandwich on sourdough and a side of butternut squash), the girl behind me asked for a glass of milk. This was strange for a variety of reasons: 1. The girl was thin, had ordered a salad (minus any meat), and thus seemed to be eating a healthy dinner. 2. She ma ...
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Do you want to become a trained chef?
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Krizia MissK
Are you looking to go back to school to train to become a chef?Not long ago on CNN, they had a feature about a town in the U.S. that used to specialize in a particular manufacturing expertise but because of the recession the plants in the area had shut down or moved their operation and business to China.Most people in the town had made the decision ...
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Alan Knight campaigns to change attitudes to deafness
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DeafBlog
Pompey football legend Alan Knight spent years struggling to hear conversations. But now hearing aids have transformed his life and he is campaigning to change attitudes to deafness.'That John Westwood has got a lot to answer for,' smiles Knight, recalling the hundreds of times he would be subjected to the loud ringing bell of the club's noisiest s ...
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New York Marathon Highlights
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BaddApple ..
I would have liked to see Ryan Hall finally win a big race, but he was that his training partner Mebs won instead. Did Kara Goucher not run this year? MenPlaceBibNameTimeStateCountryCitizenship18Meb Keflezighi02:09:15CAUSAUSA26Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot02:09:56KenyaKEN34Jaouad Gharib02:10:25MoroccoMAR45Ryan Hall02:10:36CAUSAUSA511Abderrahime Bouramd ...
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